/lit/ - Literature

How can I get encyclopedic knowledge?
When I was kid I knew a lot about dinosaurs, biology and the human body. Also space and planets. Of course the this was more of a categorical knowledge, not really specific and very basic, because I was a kid. But then adolescence came and I got depressed and pretty much fucked up my future and didn't care, about anything in general. I lost all that knowledge and I'm afraid I may have even lost the ability to absorb things like I used to.

Have you read any good books on schizophrenia? Either, for instance, a novel or story that has a major character with the illness, or a good nonfiction book. My brother has it and I want to learn more, but he's not open at all to talking about it (or much else). (inb4 "Capitalism and Schizophrenia" - I will not read a book with this title unless someone can give me a very good reason to.)

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anyone else getting strong schizo vibes from all this ?

I just haven't felt the same ever since I left the hospital. My self-esteem is so low and I don't even write anymore. I tell myself it's because of the invega injections they gave me, but I'm terrified it is just negative symptoms of schizophrenia and my mind is deteriorating.

But wait, could it be that I'm not a schizophrenic but a schizoanalyst? I must hook up my asshole machine to the sunbeam machines and assemble the overall desiring machine into the body without organs.